Business Administration Major & Minor Requirements

The Business Administration Major

In addition to the requirements for the B.S.B.A. degree outlined below, all business administration majors must complete a concentration. Except as otherwise noted on the concentration pages, a concentration area requires four courses minimum chosen from a single Robins School of Business department. A maximum of seven courses can be taken in any area of concentration.

Business administration majors must choose a concentration from the following areas: accounting, business analytics, economics, finance, international business, marketing, or management. A concentration in accounting or business analytics is always a secondary concentration to a primary concentration.

Candidates for a B.S.B.A. must:

• Satisfy the general degree requirements for graduation

• Complete the following foundational business courses:

  • ACCT-201 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting

  • ACCT-202 Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting

  • BUAD-202 Statistics for Business and Economics

  • BUAD-205 Business Communication

  • ECON-101 Principles of Microeconomics

  • ECON-102 Principles of Macroeconomics

  • MATH-211 Calculus I

• Complete the following core courses except as noted:

  • BUAD-393 Business Law^

  • BUAD-394 Business Ethics^

  • BUAD-497 Strategic Management*

  • FIN-360 Principles of Financial Management

  • MGMT-225 IT and Data Analytics

  • MGMT-330 Organizational Behavior

  • MGMT-340 Operations Management

  • MKT-320 Principles of Marketing

*The International Business concentration requires IBUS-411 in lieu of BUAD-497.

^ BUAD-393 and BUAD-394 are required for students entering the University fall 2018 and later.

Maintain at least a 2.00 overall grade point average in school of business coursework

Earn 17 units outside the Robins School of Business. Included in these 17 units are the Business Administration major requirements: ECON-101, ECON-102 BUAD-202 

Participate in a full semester University of Richmond approved study abroad program or complete a course with an international business or international business economics focus. This international focus course also may satisfy a concentration or major requirement.

All students declaring a Robins School of Business major or Business Administration minor must first pass an Excel competency exam. Entrepreneurship minors are not required to take the Excel competency exam. Students will have three attempts to demonstrate competency with a grade of 80% or higher. This is not for a grade or academic credit.